Without Him, No Bill of Rights
by Gordon S. Wood
James MadisonはJeffersonの影に隠れてしまって、評価がされていないというのがこの記事の主張。
If Madison is not actually the “father of the Constitution,” he was certainly the “father” of the Bill of Rights, which is what the first ten amendments to the Constitution were called.
NYR, November 30, 2006. p. 54.
しかし現代においては、人権を保障したこの権利章典（修正条項）の方が、憲法以上に重要になっているかもしれないとの主張。
The country then promptly forgot about the Bill of Rights until the twentieth century, when everything changed. In our own time the Bill of Rights has become even more important judicially than the Constitution itself.
NYR, November 30, 2006. p. 55.